New Manga Shout Out: 8/20/12 - 8/26/12

Welcome to the next New Manga Shout Out. With the no-raws/scans rule on MH, you have to work a bit to find these mangas. This week features fairies, a private investigator and a murder club. Remember, if you like any of the series, favorite them. Don't forget to also thank the various people who feed your manga addiction. ^_^ Translators and Scanlators, please check out these series and see if you can spread some more manga love~

We're still looking for people who know Japanese and want to help write summaries for our manga database and for the shout out. Please PM me if you want to help out. Now onto the series~

The world is in a tense political situation, and one country has instituted a new mandatory education program for all children fifteen and up. It's a half-year program that puts the children through military training. Kazuki has traveled to an installation on Yurikago ("Cradle") Island for his half-year of training along with many other boys. Kazuki has no special physical talent, but he has a remarkably good memory. His closest friend in the training, Sai, is top-notch at everything and not particularly liked by some in their class.

One day, their relatively ordinary life in training comes to an abrupt end. Kazuki awakes to find the island facility in ruins. He has no idea how much time has passed, or what has happened. Soon he meets up with Sai and a strange little girl with a cat, and they begin to try to figure out their situation. What has happened to the island, and to their country?

Coming from a family of swordsmen, Kamiku Kyotaro was the next in line to represent the Kamiku style. He is forced to leave all that behind when he is suddenly summoned by five sisters into the kingdom of Trekwars. In this world where magic exists, only females are able to cast spells and the queen of that generation has protected Trekwars using her strong magic. However, the queen has become weak and, with that, the neighboring country, Cardagia, has started its invasion. The country needs a new queen so that the protection spell is strengthened. Kyotaro has been summoned to bear a child with one of the five sisters who are princesses of the royal family so that one of them can rise to the rank of queen and protect the citizens of Trekwars. Although Kyotaro has lots of magical energy that makes him the only available candidate that the princesses have, he himself has personal issues about the situation he is put in.

In the future, humanity is on the decline. Due to decreasing birth rates, the population has been quietly decreasing, and society has begun to regress in many ways. However, all is not lost because there is a new kind of people who are inheriting the earth-- small humanoids known as 'fairies.' This story features the young woman who becomes an official human-fairy mediator. Living with her grandfather, she plans to build a solid relationship with the fairy population. She runs into problems right away, as she suddenly realizes how difficult it is to even greet the local fairies. They see her as huge, terrifying, and godly, and it will take plenty of tasty incentives to convince them that she really does want to be their friend. Her exciting days with her fairy constituency have only just begun!

This story takes place during a long stretch of peace during the Edo period. For samurai families, only the eldest son inherits the house. The younger sons are unemployed and looking for ways to fill their time. This is the story of a younger son, Fujimi Kikinosuke, as he spends his days getting into all kinds of wild situations. He spends a lot of time with his friend Juuzou, and he soon meets a new friend, a young aspiring female artist, Uta, who has her own share of troubles.

When the two were still young, Saito and Kawana Subaru were close friends. But with Subaru coming from a wealthy family, she was sent to the top school while Saito had to settle for a regular education. But after painfully studying for years, he was finally accepted as a high school freshman through a scholarship program that only a handful of students are awarded. But what Saito thought was going to be a heartwarming reunion turned out horrible. Subaru had grown up beautiful and was the most popular person in school as she was kind to everyone, all except towards Saito who she seemed to despise.

Almost regretting his decision to come to the school, Saito wishes that somehow their dorm rooms would connect to each other. Magically, because it turns out that Subaru wished the same thing, their wish comes true but, in return, Subaru loses her self-control for one hour per day. During that time, her erotic desire for Saito, that she can normally hide, comes pouring out and her true intentions are revealed. He wants to take advantage of this once in a lifetime chance but doing so might jeopardize their relationship during the other 23 hours.

Gamushuu Agency’s director, Kudo, got into this line of business for one reason: she idolized the private investigator characters she saw in novels and TV shows where they would uncover a dark network of criminals and take them down using analytical and deductive techniques. However, the reality is far from it where with the help of her assistant Suga, they deal mainly with mundane cases like missing people, stalker cases and cheating spouses. But Kudo will not stop until a client comes through that door with a case that will put even the fictional characters to shame!

Konohana Shino lives in the Meiji era of Japan. As her father's only child, she was raised like a man. Now a young woman, Shino has top grades in school and is the top fighter in the dojo. But one day, her little brother is born, and her father decides that it's time for her to be a woman. He insists she quit school and the dojo, dress in the confining clothes of a woman, and marry a guy she has no interest in.

Shino has no idea how to deal with this unexpected and unwelcome twist in her life, until she happens across the foreigner Daniel Irving. After she saves him from thugs, he tells her about all the opportunities for women in New York. Determined to find a better life, Shino runs away from home and stows away aboard a foreign ship. Two things don't go according to plan-- Daniel is aboard the ship as well, and it's going to Hokkaido, not the US. Even so, this can still be the beginning of a new life for Shino, one that includes a lot of Daniel. But even if she finds that she loves Daniel, this era is not an easy one for marrying foreigners...

There existed a rumor in school about a secret murder club that killed people for you. All you had to do was write that person’s name on a red paper and tie it to a branch of a particular tree on campus and the murder club would do your dirty work for you. That rumor died years ago and no one thought twice about it until very recently. There seems to be a new generation of killers that are starting to make their presence known on campus and reviving the murder club. Not one person is safe from the deadly methods of the most dangerous club in history.

Thanks go to vyc for the summary.

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This is what tethysdust said this week:

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Boukyaku no Cradle was definitely the most interesting to me this week. The mystery was really intriguing. N.Y. Komachi was lighter reading, but it was funny. I hope Shino gets to live her own life in the end.Here's what vyc had to say:

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Nothing really eye catching for me personally but if I had to pick Kimi wa Midara na Boku no Joou would be my choice. Sort of staple teenage love story but the drawings are well done so plus there.

My opinion: Boukyaku no Cradle sounds like it may be a good mystery to read and Satsujin Club Revenge reminds me a bit of death note.

I agree with tethydust and you, c_k, that Boukyaku no Cradle sounds quite interesting. I hope I can read it in English one day! Satsujin Club Revenge also tickles me a bit, with the graphic and summary.

@Frosty - Well, I mean, one can hope~ It might not mean that it will get scanlated/TLed quickly or right away, but it could eventually get scanlated. If a group sees something interesting, they could always ask one of their TLers to see if they are interested... and if they do, then there you go~